Mike Eli of the Eli Young Band performs during the NCAA Final Four weekend with the Dallas skyline behind him.

Eli Young Band is making a habit of throwing parties on the Texas Rangers’ home turf. The Grammy-nominated country act announced tonight that it will host another “house party” at Globe Life Park. The guys invited a few country music friends along: Gary Allan, Cody Johnson, Maddie & Tae and Pat Green.

Eli Young Band got its start in Denton and most recently performed in Dallas during the mega-bash concert festival on Final Four weekend. After the Nov. 8 show in Arlington, EYB will also host a concert with unnamed guests on Nov. 15 at Minute Maid Park in Houston.

Tickets to the D-FW show cost $25-$65 and go on sale Aug. 29 at texasrangers.com/eliyoungband. Seats are available inside the park, or fans can purchase field tickets and sit on blankets.

Eli Young Band is made up of (from left) Chris Thompson on drums, Mike Eli on lead vocals and guitar, James Young on guitar and Jon Jones on bass.

BY Brenna Rushing

Grammy-nominated Eli Young Band is in the midst of a big journey as a country band with a growing, evolving fan base.

Celebrating that trek to the top is their fifth studio album titled 10,000 Towns, which contains songs about the good and the bad. It’s the Dallas band’s first record in which all four members acted as songwriters, giving each a chance to express where he is in life.

The album’s title was inspired by the band’s days on the road, seeing cities big and small. The record remains upbeat for the most part, and in fact guitarist James Young called it “a lot more upbeat than our previous records” in a “cut by cut” explainer written by the band. Softer numbers like “What Does” abruptly halt the country shindig, though they’re still worth a listen.

Frontman Mike Eli delivers clean, unwavering tones and straight-laced riffs. In the cut-by-cut notes, bassist Jon Jones says the track was written with a rough relationship in mind — at “that period where you are questioning everything and asking what you could have done. This was your idea of love and when your whole world shatters, you just can’t understand what went wrong.”

“Drunk Last Night,” the record’s first single and opening track, reverses the emotion as an all-out party song — the kind you start and end the night with. But it’s the more organic songs like “Angel Like You” that resonate, making a bolder statement by peeling away the layers with heartfelt words that surpass their mainstream feel.

10,000 Towns has succeeded in doing what the Eli Young Band set out to do: make a fun record their fans will want to hear live. There are no curveballs, just a few Texas boys having a good time.